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Recent news from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:43:15 +0000eZ Components Feed 1.3 (http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Feed)http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationGeorgia May Lower State Income Taxhttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=383291
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<p>The bill (that will lower the rate on income taxes for individuals and businesses) is a revived effort at similar tax changes that bogged down in 2011 despite being based on recommendations from an independent commission of economists and business executives.</p>
<p>Christine Ries, chairwoman of the economics department at Georgia Institute of Technology, served on the commission and has reviewed HB 445. Her computer models – and the three others she’s compared it to -- came up with the employment and income projections.</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=383291Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500The End of the Big Machttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=383281
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<p>"The burger's demise won’t be marked by a declaration in a quarterly report, but by a collective appreciation for the comfort it offered America."</p>
<p>"All classics are bittersweet, whether they’re vintage films or triple-bun hamburgers. Tender, they tug at our emotions, partly earnestly, partly in nostalgia for a joy that probably was never as joyous as the distortions of time and memory afford."</p>
<p>-Ian Bogost<br/></p>
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<p>The Georgia Institute of Technology has granted Michael L. Best, who teaches in the university’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and College of Computing, a four-year leave of absence so he can assume the position of director of a newly formed United Nations institute in Macau, China.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/27436/the-un-taps-georgia-tech-prof-to-launch-macau-program/">Continue to article...</a></p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=378781Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Impact of UK research revealed in 7,000 case studieshttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=378761
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<p>“Every government wants to know the societal impact of its research,” says Diana Hicks, who studies science and technology policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. “The difficulty is how to do that broadly when you only have isolated case studies. Britain has cracked that problem and produced a wonderful data source.”</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/impact-of-uk-research-revealed-in-7-000-case-studies-1.16898">Continue to article...</a></p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=378761Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Bankoff Heads Effort to Develop Midtown as Regional Tech Hubhttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=378151
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<p>“Midtown is now the innovation center of Atlanta,” said Joe Bankoff, the new chairman of Atlanta’s <a href="http://www.midtownatl.com/">Midtown Alliance</a>.</p>
<p>Bankoff’s perspective on the midtown “innovation zone” draws upon his experience in the arts, business, law, technology, and his role now in higher education as chair of the <strong>Ivan Allen College</strong> Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=378151Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Mitchell Appointed to New FCC Committeehttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=378021
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<p><a href="http://www.iac.gatech.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/bio/mitchell">Helena Mitchell</a> has been appointed to serve on a newly formed committee of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=378021Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500To Win Funds, Scientists Pursue Sweeping Solutions to Social Illshttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=377091
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<p>"Even the science community knows that basic research, the linear model of progress, is kind of getting tired," says Diana M. Hicks, a public-policy professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Scientists have realized they can’t go to Congress, talk about the endless frontier, and expect more money, she says. "Grand challenges are somehow of the cultural moment."</p>
<p><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/To-Win-Funds-Scientists/151717/">Continue to article...</a></p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=377091Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Georgia Tech and Emory Launch Partnership on Multi-Faith Leadershiphttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=374501
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<p>A public symposium Feb. 18 on "<a href="http://www.iac.gatech.edu/about-us/multi-faith" target="_blank">Compassion and Leadership in a Multi-Faith World</a>" is the inaugural event of the newly established Leadership and Multi-Faith Program (LAMP), a joint initiative between Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Emory University's Candler School of Theology.</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=374501Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Bankoff Brings Leadership to Midtown Alliancehttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=376541
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<p><a href="http://www.iac.gatech.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/bio/bankoff">Joseph Bankoff</a> brings his longtime Atlanta leadership, perspective and appreciation for the arts, education, and business worlds to his new role as chairman of <a class="ct saveLink" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/us/ga/atlanta/midtown_alliance/3210387">Midtown Alliance</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.iac.gatech.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/bio/besedes">Tibor Besedes</a> led a study — <a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00506?journalCOde=rest#.VNI34mTF8rM" data-track=" External">published</a> recently in <em>The Review of Economics and Statistics —</em> that pitted three decision-making strategies against each other, and the best strategy was the one that treated the process like a tournament<a href="http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/4-steps-to-making-an-overwhelming-decision-easy.html"/></p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=376551Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Best to Spearhead United Nations University Institutehttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=373031
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<p>Michael L. Best, associate professor of international affairs and computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been appointed as director of the newly formed United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (<a href="http://unu.edu/about/unu-system/cs#overview">UNU-CS</a>) based in Macau, China.</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=373031Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Clark Elected Vice-Chair/Chair of Economic Geography Specialty Grouphttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=372551
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<p>Jennifer Clark has been elected to serve as vice-chair and chair of the <a href="http://geography.wisc.edu/aag-egsg/">Economic Geography Specialty Group</a> of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). She will serve as vice-chair through 2016, at which point she will take up the position of chair through 2018.</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=372551Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Kosal Speaks in Vienna on Big Data and Nonproliferationhttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=372451
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<p>Nunn School Assistant Professor <a href="http://www.inta.gatech.edu/people/faculty/margaret-e-kosal" target="_blank">Margaret E. Kosal</a> gave an invited talk on “Big Data Analytics, the Life Sciences, & Transnational Security Threats” at <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/policy-institute/icsa/index.aspx" target="_blank">King’s College London Policy Institute</a>-organized workshop on “Open Source and Big Data Methodologies for Nonproliferation” in Vienna at the end of January.</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=372451Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500Poetry@Tech Kicks off Spring Salon Serieshttp://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=370061
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<p>A new lunchtime speaker series, the <a href="http://arts.gatech.edu/">Arts@Tech Salon</a> Series, featuring a range of arts-related topics started yesterday with a discussion of Winston Churchill’s passion for painting and the role it played in his life.</p>
<p>Duncan Sandys, Churchill’s great-grandson, and Rodney Cook, founder of <a href="http://thegateatlanta.com/">Millennium Gate Museum</a>, talked about the exhibition of paintings by Churchill at the Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station. </p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=370061Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500New Scholarship for Study in Russia http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=368821
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<p> Three years ago, under the auspices of a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) U.S.-Russia Program grant, Georgia Tech began sending students to St.</p>http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/news/story?id=368821Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500